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A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

About Face

About Face


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

This delicious 18th installment in Donna Leon's entertaining series finds urbane Commissario Brunetti on the trail of ... garbage! Leon lightens the plot (corruption, murder, toxic waste and trucking, etc) with leisurely meals, family encounters and the pleasures of daily life in Venice. The title refers to a subplot about a great beauty ruined by an unfortunate facelift. (ITA54, $14.00)

Acqua Alta

Acqua Alta


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

Number five in the series, this is another in Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries. In this installment, a body is discovered in the home of diva Flavia Petrelli. (ITL559, $14.00)

Blood from a Stone

Blood from a Stone


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

In this, the 14th installment in Donna Leon's wonderfully satisfying Guido Brunetti mysteries, a Senegalese peddler is shot down in a public square (on a cold Venetian night...). (ITL615, $14.00)

Brunetti's Cookbook

Brunetti's Cookbook


by Tatjana Hauptmann | Donna Leon | Roberta Pianaro

  • FOOD
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 288 PAGES

Donna Leon and her good friend Roberta Pianaro ate their way through the 90 recipes in this savory companion to Leon's splendid Commissario Guido Brunetti novel. With excerpts from the novels and original essays on food and life in Venice by Donna Leon. (ITA133, $24.95)

Death and Judgment

Death and Judgment


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

In the fourth installment in the enormously satisfying Guido Brunetti series, the Commissario investigates suspicious happenings in Santa Lucia, Venice and the Dolomites. (ITL745, $14.00)

Death at La Fenice

Death at La Fenice


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 270 PAGES

The first of the tremendously good Guido Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author's beloved Venice, in which a famous conductor is found dead at the celebrated theater of the title. (ITL555, $13.99)

Death in a Strange Country

Death in a Strange Country


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

This, the second Brunetti mystery, opens with a body of an American soldier in a Venetian Canal. (ITL556, $14.00)

Doctored Evidence

Doctored Evidence


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

Another in Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice. In this installment, a miserly, unpleasant woman is found murdered and all eyes, at least until our hero arrives, point to her Romanian housekeeper. (ITL613, $14.00)

Drawing Conclusions

Drawing Conclusions


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 260 PAGES

Commissario di Polizia of the city of Venice, Guido Brunetti has lost none of his wry humor, love of food and family or impatience with police headquarters in this 20th novel in the series, in which he, the ever-resourceful Signorina Elttra and Inspector Vianello probe into what appears to be a simple case of an old woman who died quietly at home. (ITA241, $24.00)

Dressed for Death

Dressed for Death


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Book number three Donna Leon's satisfying, wonderfully erudite Guido Brunetti mysteries set in Venice. (ITL614, $14.00)

Fatal Remedies

Fatal Remedies


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

Commissario Brunetti returns in the latest installment of Leon's popular mystery series. (ITL856, $14.00)

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 255 PAGES

The tenth in the excellent Comissario Brunetti series, this mystery follows the investigation of a bureaucrat's dubious fall from a scaffold. (ITL968, $14.00)

The Girl of His Dreams

The Girl of His Dreams


by Donna Leon

  • LITERATURE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Now in paper! Thickly plotted and as imbued as ever with the atmosphere of Venice, The Girl of His Dreams, 17th in the series, opens with the funeral of Brunetti's mother. Going undercover (and besotted), the detective investigates, among other things, a mysterious religious sect and the suspicious death of a gypsy girl. (ITL940, $14.00)

A Noble Radiance

A Noble Radiance


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 277 PAGES

Number seven in the Guido Brunetti mysteries, all memorably set in contemporary Venice. For some readers, this installment is the best yet. A body is found on the estate of a local landowner at the foot of the Dolomites. (ITL557, $14.00)

A Question of Belief

A Question of Belief


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Brunetti grapples with corruption, the usual bureaucratic intransigence -- and the sweltering Venetian summer -- in this 19th book. (ITA134, $15.00)

Quietly in Their Sleep

Quietly in Their Sleep


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

The sixth book in Leon's satisfying series, originally published as Death of Faith in 1997. (ITL833, $14.00)

A Sea of Troubles

A Sea of Troubles


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

This tenth mystery in the entertaining series follows the tribulations of Signorina Elettra, the urbane Brunetti's secretary, who falls in love with a young(er) man on a visit to Pellestrina, one of the long islands that shelters the Venetian lagoon from the Adriatic. (ITA55, $14.00)

Suffer the Little Children

Suffer the Little Children


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Leon's 16th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery delves into the world of doctors and medicine in a wonderfully realized contemporary Venice. (ITL834, $14.00)

Through a Glass, Darkly

Through a Glass, Darkly


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

Number 15 in the enormously satisfying, wonderfully erudite series memorably set in the author's beloved Venice and starring police commissioner Guido Brunetti. (ITL714, $14.00)

Uniform Justice

Uniform Justice


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 258 PAGES

Another satisfying entry in the Guido Brunetti series of Venetian mysteries. (ITL558, $14.00)

Willful Behavior

Willful Behavior


by Donna Leon

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Commissario Brunetti dredges up dark secrets from Italy's anti-Semitic past in his captivating 11th case. (ITA167, $14.00)

 

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